Anthropology

Within the social sciences, other-than-human being's agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed.

This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement.

This volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with the Thai migrant community in Hong Kong between 2016 and 2020, this book provides original insights into the complexity and diversity of identity negotiation, ethnicity navigation, and womanhood reinvention of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong.

Life must be understood as the result of evolution, and human life as the emergence of the species Sapiens from the genus Homo of the family of apes.

While previous research has explored the academic adaptation or acculturation processes of Chinese students studying abroad, limited attention has been paid to students' own perspectives and narrations of their experience.

This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, materiality, and culture to maintain sharp boundaries between the private and public.

This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, materiality, and culture to maintain sharp boundaries between the private and public.

The contributors to this book present case studies of elder care in China and India, and draw comparisons between the two - illuminating some of the key issues facing the two largest Asian countries as they develop rapidly.

The contributors to this book present case studies of elder care in China and India, and draw comparisons between the two - illuminating some of the key issues facing the two largest Asian countries as they develop rapidly.

This book focuses on the example of surrogate motherhood to explore the interplay between new reproductive technologies and new ethnographic writing technologies.

This book explores questions related to social and cultural sustainability of coastal communities in transition through the lens of childhood.

This book analyses how children from transnational Japanese-Singaporean families are educated.

Science, Technology and Society: An Introduction provides students with an accessible overview of the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

This book fosters new links between non-representational theories and more-than-human perspectives.

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment.

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism.

The Colonial Shadow examines the colonial psychology that has shaped what is now known as Canada.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment.

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK.

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism.

The Colonial Shadow examines the colonial psychology that has shaped what is now known as Canada.

What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities?

In Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life.

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook.

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred.

This book brings together sociological insights, theoretical perspectives and global research to contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexities of contemporary power, violence, and justice.

Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood.

Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood.

This book brings together sociological insights, theoretical perspectives and global research to contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexities of contemporary power, violence, and justice.

This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses.

The field of primatology has expanded substantially in the last twenty years, particularly with regard to studies of primates in human-altered landscapes.

The Anthropocene presents theology, and especially theological anthropology, with unprecedented challenges.

This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation.

This book discusses many aspects of fetuses and motherhood from fields as wide as sociology and medicine.

This edited volume offers a rich collection of up-to-date research and critical scholarship from various African institutions on incidents of youth violence, intervention and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

This contributed volume, based on papers presented at a conference held in Zimbabwe in mid-2021, interrogates solutions to COVID-19-related problems and issues across agricultural, environmental and water sectors in Zimbabwe and assesses their scientific, economic and practical validity.

This contributed volume provides case studies from around the world that feature a convergence of indigenous and western knowledge in an attempt to understand complex socio-ecological systems.

In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q'ero since the 1960s.

Kompost ist zugleich eine Ontologie und eine Art und Weise des Wissens, der Wissensproduktion, die gemeinsam das vermeintlich Gegebene ‚der Welt‘ auseinanderdröseln, um daraus vielzählige Welten hervorzubringen.

Der Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen.

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global system that emerged alongside European colonialism, is based on presumed biological and cultural differences, racist practices, the hypervaluation of whiteness, and the devaluation of nonwhites.

Unsere westlich-bürgerliche Gesellschaft ist stolz auf ihren revolutionären Ursprung – den Sturz der traditionellen Autoritäten und Hierarchien, der selbst vor der Enthauptung von Königen nicht zurückschreckte: "All men are created equal!

Moderne Formen der Wald- und Baumbestattungen sind weit mehr als ein Trend.

Eine logische Folge unseres dauerhaften Sitzens sind Rückenschmerzen.

Unsere westlich-bürgerliche Gesellschaft ist stolz auf ihren revolutionären Ursprung – den Sturz der traditionellen Autoritäten und Hierarchien, der selbst vor der Enthauptung von Königen nicht zurückschreckte: "All men are created equal!

Una reflexión sobre la mexicanidad a partir de hechos históricos y sucesos actuales.